Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-11-11
GALLANT RESCUE At SEA.
STRUGGLING FOR HOURS TO SAVE
FOUR MEN-BRAVELY RE.
WARDED AT LAST.

The steamship Wyanoke, Of the
Old Dominion Line, lett Norfolk on
Tuesday morning at $3.50 o'clock for
New York city, with % passengers
and a cargo. 1t was very stormy.
At 9 o'clock that morning her look.
out spied queer object in the ocean
some six miles off Cape Henry. The
wind was blowing flercely, and the
sea was rnnning high up on decks.
Captain Jenny sent the Wyanoke
nearer the queer object. Then he
saw that it was the three masts Of
a schooner sticking some 20 feet up
ont of 80 feet of water. Two sea.
men we're lashed to the foremast of
the snnken wreck-one to the main.
mast, and in the ropes of the third
stick a slight built sailor could be
seen supporting another unfortu-
nate, thinly clad, apparently dying.
All the passengers Of the Wyanoke
were ont on deck watching the FIVE
sailors tied to the toundered ships
masts. From the deck Of the Wy.
anoke it seemed impossible to ex.
tend any help, out Captain Jenny
sent out life boat under Second
Officer Nelson. Just as the boat
was pushed off for the wreck, the
sailor who had been wrthing in the
arms Of his fellow on the mast
threw mp his hands and fell back
dead. His body was fastened to
the rigging with rope, but his friend
could hold it no longer, and the
corpse was washed from his grasp.
All this the passengers and the
crew of the Wyanoke and the sur
vivors OF the wreck had to look
upon.
The llfeboat approached the
schooner with difficulty. The sea
swept the resc ers away from their
goal. They could not get rope to
the imperiled men. For three hours
they struggled, and then, worn out
and wet to the skin, they returned
to their ship. AS the last man
climbed up the WyanOke's side the
lifeboat was dashed against the big
steamship and smashed. She was
filled with water and sank. The
passengers on the Wysnoke volun.
teered to take another boat, but
Capt. Jenny would not let them
Boatwains Lawson was put In
charge of the second boat. The
men battled with the high running
sea for a long while, and at last,
about 5 o'clock, succeeded in get
ting a rope from their little boat to
the foremast. Three of the wreck.
ed yoyagers we're taken into the
/ lifeboat and put on board the steam
ship. Another trip and the fourth
sailor was saved. The storm still
kept up, and it was impossible to
get near the body of the sailor who
had died in sight of all, so it was
left tossing on the waves around
the mast to which it was tied.
The rescued men told their story
"The unlucky schooner was the
three.masted Edith B. Everman,
owned by p. w. Wheyton, OF Phil
adelphia, and bound with 335 tons
of coal from Weehawken tor Rich
mond. 1t was on Monday night
that their tate fell upon them
The weather was nasty. There
was a fog, sweeping sea, q fu'
rious wind. They we're heading tor
Cape Henry about 3 p. m. Sud
denly the ocean got wilder than
ever, and, before the ship could be
guided aside, a huge heap of water
rolled across the schoOner's nose
and crushed in the forward hatch
The six men in the crew were all
on deck, and they felt the Edith b.
Everman begin to sink. They
rushed to the rigging. All reach
ed the top safely, but they had nc
time to save q thing or get a bite to
eat. Ten minutes after they had
fastened themselves alOft tn {
schooner pitched foremost, then
lurched, and began to settle to one
side. Ten seconds after this sud
den pitching one of tho seamen
Oliver Kearney, was shaken from
his ropes and thrown below. H'
was dashed between the mast and
drowned. A little while later thu
vessel righted again, and in half al
hour from the time the first blt
wave poured down her hold thu
shin was resting on the bottom
eight and one half fathoms deep
The men cluDg to their places or
the tops of the masts, the wate
freezing on their bodies all through
the night. The captain, JOSEPH
Camp, OF Tuckahee, n. j., was OF
the mainmast the mate, james
Ingersoll, of 274l Lehigh avenue
Philadelphia, was on the mlzzen